long reier advice™ ahead
Build what you want but basically noone builds unrealistic in ironforge so you won't have anyone to fight against fairly. The main thing that makes it unrealistic is the snapper blades passing through he wheels and motors, as well as the spinners on the front going through each other. In the standard ruleset this wouldn't be allowed, so like in tournaments and stuff.
As for the design itself its ok i guess, it seems a bit messy though with all the different types of weapons. I'm sure simplifying the frontal weapons and ditching the back ones will improve it. If you want to keep a similar design to this with small grindy spinners I might try rebuilding the chassis and making a sort of trapping setup with plows on the sides and wedges or something. You might want to try making an HS with just 1 motor and strong weapons, take a look at the HW-Undercutter bot in the AI ironforge comes with. The flamethrowers do not help you here and they just keep things from hitting your spinners.
Also to save weight I'd highly recommend 2WD. wheels weigh a lot, I'd go for maybe firebird drive if I were you. It's plenty fast for this kind of design. 4 RC motors are not very strong and the setup I explained is faster and lighter. Also if you ditch the snappers and go 2d you only need 2 carbatts which will also save you a lot of weight for more weapons and armor.
on the second one I think your weapons can be improved quite a bit, they kind of work against each other as-is. The range of your hammer is short of your zteks, so basically to use it you will have to somehow get your oppenent on top of your weapon motors which is difficult and you risk losing your weapons quickly. Not to mention if they're on top of your zteks then your spinners can't even hit them. What you want to try for is widen your spinners a lot (like put them farther apart) and make it so your hammer reaches much farther than your spinners.
see how the hammers in this robot are super long, angled, and light. You also want a piercing type weapon for a hammer instead of a sledge unless your hammer arm is reaaaaally long. Like I said on the other one if possible try to make this a more trapping-type setup with some armor wings on the side to guide things toward the spinners and you honestly need wedges on hammer bots.
Honestly its nice to minimize empty space like people said but guys it's really not as big of a deal in ironforge because the chassis armor is so much stronger than in stock/dsl. External armor was mandatory in dsl because the armors sucked but its not as dangerous here to have an exposed chassis, especially if its sloped.
For both of them it'd really help us if instead of you saying "steel armor" you'd say if it's steel 3 or 5 or whatever. Theres a lot of variance between the 4 thicknesses of each armor.
you probably want to download some cool custom textures to avoid having to paint your robot solid red also
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